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What are the disadvantages of IoT?

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1 .Security: IoT technology creates an ecosystem of connected devices. However, during this process, the system may offer little authentication control despite sufficient cybersecurity measures.Keeping the data gathered and transmitted by IoT devices safe is challenging, as they evolve and expand in use. Although cybersecurity is a high priority, IoT devices aren't always included in the strategy. Devices must be protected from physical tampering, internet-based software attacks, network-based attacks and hardware-based attacks.

Data privacy is another concern, especially because IoT devices are being used in more sensitive industries such as healthcare and finance. Information privacy laws are coming into effect globally, too, meaning that not only does it make good business sense to protect data, but businesses are legally required to do so.

Integrating encryption and security protocols with IoT devices can be difficult with a large fleet of devices. The cost in time, effort and money to do it on all devices might be prohibitive, so some businesses might use inadequate platforms because they're cheap or forego it altogether. All it takes is one breach for a business to learn a tough lesson.

2. Privacy: The use of IoT, exposes a substantial amount of personal data, in extreme detail, without the user’s active participation. This creates lots of privacy issues.

3. Flexibility: There is a huge concern regarding the flexibility of an IoT system. It is mainly regarding integrating with another system as there are many diverse systems involved in the process.

4. Complexity: The design of the IoT system is also quite complicated. Moreover, it’s deployment and maintenance also not very easy.Though it might seem like IoT devices are performing simple tasks such as counting entry swipes at a secure door, there's a lot of complex technology involved in creating them. Plus, if they're providing essential data to another workflow or system, they could negatively affect everything connected to it. Miscounting the number of swipes at the door isn't a big deal, but if another device confuses temperature data with entry swipe data, it can be catastrophic. And the error isn't always easy to fix.

There can be a big learning curve in deploying IoT devices. It makes sense to develop a strategy on how and why to deploy them before purchasing them. That way, you can be assured they're working as intended and you can support them.

5. Compliance: IoT has its own set of rules and regulations. However, because of its complexity, the task of compliance is quite challenging.

6. Connectivity and power dependence :Many devices depend on continuous power or internet connectivity to function properly. When either goes down, so does the device and anything connected to it. Given how intertwined IoT devices are with today's businesses, everything can grind to a halt when they're down.

Businesses must understand how outages will affect their devices to plan proactively for outages -- because an outage will happen at some point. Troubleshooting and incident management processes can help alleviate that, as can ensuring employees know what to do when devices are down.

7. Integration: There's currently no consensus regarding IoT protocols and standards, so devices produced by different manufacturers might not work with existing technology. Each one might require different configurations and hardware connections, making it hard to deploy efficiently.

The business must understand network needs to prepare for any required customization. That also means planning for extra time with device deployments to handle any troubleshooting or related tasks that might arise.

8. Time-consuming and expensive to implement: Deploying IoT devices often comes with high time and money investment requirements. There's the number of devices to be purchased and configured, staff to install them, others to integrate them into the network and support calls to the manufacturer for help. If they're all going into a single location, businesses can make up that investment quickly. If the business is spreading them out, expect the cost to rise exponentially.

By planning the deployment budget and strategy before buying, organizations can eliminate many potential obstacles they would otherwise encounter.

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